Stuart George is a wine writer. He is based in London and is founder and MD of Vins Extraordinaires, which offers fine and rare wine experiences and sales to corporate and private clients.

A holder of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust Diploma in Wine and Spirits since 2000, Stuart has tasted vintages back to 1780. He was UK Young Wine Writer of the Year in 2003 before working with Hugh Johnson OBE at The World of Fine Wine magazine, which won several awards during his time there. Stuart was Image Editor and lead contributor to the best-selling 1001 Wines You Must Try Before You Die and Editor of the award-winning The Finest Wines of Tuscany and The Finest Wines of Champagne. With the American art historian and novelist Noah Charney, Stuart co-authored The Wine Forger’s Handbook, a short history of forgery and fraud in the wine world.

Stuart has been the sole UK representative at the Shanghai International Wine Challenge; the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in Chile; the Austrian Wine Challenge; and the Concorso Enologico Internazionale in Italy.

His personal website and blog is www.stuartgeorge.net.

Articles

Stuart George, ‘Azienda Agricola La Monacesca 1993-2004’, World of Fine Wine 13 2006 p43-4